Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os | Flower painter
Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os (1782-1861), Dutch painter**, was a 19th century flower painter from the Northern Netherlands. According to the RKD he was a son and pupil of the flower painter Jan van Os and a brother of the painters Pieter van Os and Maria Margaretha van Os (1779-1862).
In 1809 he won the first prize of the Society Felix Meritis in Amsterdam for a still life in which genre he later specialized. Van Os became Ridder in de orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw in 1812.
In 1809 he won the first prize of the Society Felix Meritis in Amsterdam for a still life in which genre he later specialized. Van Os became Ridder in de orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw in 1812.
Justyna Kopania | Abstract Palette Knife painter
- "My name is Justyna Kopania. I am a painter. Art is my asylum, life, poetry, music, the best cigar, tasty strong tea, everything.
My Art reflects the world I perceive with all my senses; people I meet and love; nature I admire, and all the things that affect the way I am.
The Man is my main inspiration and This Man is the principal topic of my project. I am focusing on Their psyche, attitudes, as well as Their appearance, manners and all the complex processes that take place both outside and inside the Man'.
Juliana Kolesova
Ульяна Колесова is an award winning graphics designer, illustrator and digital photographer. She received a master's degree in fine art and design from the Moscow School of Applied Arts. She then began her career as a painter and her pieces were displayed and sold in numerous exhibitions throughout Europe. Since that time she has worked as a graphic designer, illustrator and art director for various companies in Moscow in both the advertising and publishing industries.
Valentine Bartholomew
Valentine Bartholomew [1799-1879], British painter, became an early member of the Society of Painters in WaterColours, which he joined in 1835. He had a special talent for flower painting, a branch of art which he pursued with much success, his works being chiefly remarkable for the great care and the large scale on which they were carried out. "Azaleas" and "Camellias" are in the South Kensington Museum. Bartholomew held for many years the post of Flower painter in Ordinary to the Queen from 1837.
Marc Chagall / Jean de La Fontaine | Favole a Colori
Sono 300 le incisioni di Marc Chagall dedicate alle favole di La Fontaine, una suite di esemplari a grandi margini, colorate a mano e firmate dall'artista.
La splendida illustrazione delle Favole di La Fontaine, iniziata da Chagall nel 1927 e conclusasi tre anni dopo, fu eseguita su commissione di Ambroise Vollard.
Nel lontano 1927 "il fatto che Volard avesse scelto Chagall provocò vivaci polemiche... dal fatto che la Fontaine, "parte del patrimonio nazionale francese", venisse illustrato da un russo, un ebreo per giunta forestiero...
Kahlil Gibran / Alexander Khokhlov | Tristezza
Agnès Boulloche ~ Fantastic Surrealist painter
Agnès Boulloche, French painter, was born in Paris, she spent her childhood in Morocco. These young years in North Africa made Agnes a legend and Djinn connoisseur, a lover of the uncanny. Back in Paris in the Sixties, she was a student at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs, in the followed years, she entirely concentrated on oil painting on wood panels using the old “glaze” technique which consist in superimposing thin transparent layers of colors and makes it possible to combine fine strokes and luminous tints. She also uses various alchemical formulas to create her own pigments, mediums and varnishes.
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